I am constantly reminded to self-advertise more, do linkedin, post photos of events etc. I agree but forget & share articles I like.

After organizing a "Knowledge and Democracy" panel at the Estonian Annual Philosophy Conference with @miasmafactory.bsky.social & I. Cerovac, we discussed it again.

Institutional Epistemology and Extreme Inequality Institutional Epistemology and Extreme Inequality: Knowledge and Governance in a Non-ideal World provides an account of the fundamental design of an institution…

New link, with Bloomsbury:

www.bloomsbury.com/us/instituti...

This is fascinating, thanks!

That's some great precise naming.

Very much looking forward to reading it!

Thank you very much, Holger! Looking forward to your thoughts and further discussions!

The book 1) develops a synthesis of epistemic democracy and epistemic liberalism, and 2) argues that both liberals and democrats must commit - in virtue of their own fundamental epistemological commitments - to protection against extreme economic inequalities.

Institutional Epistemology and Extreme Inequality: Knowledge and Governance in a Non-ideal World Reconciling theories of intelligent institutional systems in experimentalist open democracy and pluralist liberalism, Institutional Epistemology and Extreme Inequality argues that protecting freed...

So, I wrote a book that argues that protection against extreme economic inequalities (namely, freedom from poverty and limits to wealth) is a key condition of epistemic reliability of institutional systems. Hope some of you will find it interesting!

Disagreement without discovery and the epistemological argument for freedom from poverty - Synthese In this paper, I develop an epistemological argument for freedom from poverty, building on Gerald Gaus’ work on political and moral disagreement in New Diversity Theory (NDT). NDT argues that diversit...

Great idea, thanks!

Gaus' work in New Diversity Theory posits that diversity and disagreement are fundamental to learning; I argue freedom from poverty is fundamental to protection of diversity and disagreement.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...